This looks really cool
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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Plex is once again increasing the monthly price users must pay to stream their own media (if this is you, why haven't you purchased a lifetime pass yet?)
Better yet, why have you not migrated to Jellyfin. Why are you paying someone else to view your own stuff?
The hard part about Jellyfin is that it requires your own domain and some more self-hosting knowledge that a hobbyist might not have yet.
It's not a super hard transition, but it took me a few months on/off to learn the basics of hosting a website from my house.
I'm still trying to figure out headscale on a VPS so I can mask my home IP
I have my own domains, but I do not use them for Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin on my lan or over my personal VPN.
That means it can't be shared (easily) with others. That's the appeal of Plex and the reason why switching entirely to Jellyfin is not an easy thing to do.
Give Netbird a shot. I set it up in like two hours. Much easier than my failed attempt at headscale+tailscale.
It's also pretty insecure so host over the web at your own risk.
Most people should be using a VPN and not exposing these things to the internet at large via proxies or port forwards.
Right, but if you're hosting Plex then you've likely shared it with friends/family. Jellyfin isn't as easy to share.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.
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What is that picture? The blogpost doesn't elaborate on it...
It looks like the educational website Kahoot. As a teacher, I hoped this was some open source version of it that I might more easily catch the cheating students in my classes.
Razzia, formerly Rahoot. Self hostable.
Lol, seems like they had some trouble over trademarks or something
Disclaimer: Razzia is an independent, open-source software project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party quiz platform or service. Any resemblance to other quiz platforms is purely incidental
Looks like the razzia image, but somewhat hard to see on mobile
🤣 Its not working! 🤣
Works for me, dunno what to say.